My New Mind Map
My New Mind Map
by Karen Docherty
1. Topic and concept identification
1.1. Not too broad and not too narrow
2. Search term identificaton
2.1. New node
3. Content evaluation
3.1. Authority
3.2. Reliability
3.3. Bias/point of view
3.4. Currency
3.5. Relavance
4. Search strategies
4.1. Boolean
4.2. Limiters
4.2.1. Full Text
4.2.2. Peer-review
4.2.3. Date
4.2.4. Article type
5. Resource selection
5.1. Background information
5.2. Statistics
5.3. Databases vs free web
5.4. Catalog